PETERSON REVIEWS
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Odds & Ends: Halloween Edition
Notes from the last month.
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Breaking Points
‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,’ ‘Blue Moon,’ and ‘A House of Dynamite,’ reviewed.
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Danielle Davis’ House of 300(-ish) Zombie Barbies
For 425: Catching up with Kirkland’s self-described ‘zombie Barbie lady.’
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The Low-Budget Charms of ‘Blacula’
This 1972 reworking of the classic vampire story isn’t very good, but lead actor William Marshall’s performance can be winning.
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‘Stuck’ is Among Stuart Gordon’s Best Movies
The horror filmmaker’s swan song deftly mixes the horrific with the humorous.
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‘After the Hunt’’s Shades of Gray
Luca Guadagnino’s higher education-set follow-up to November 2024’s ‘Queer’ is ambiguous to the point of not saying much at all.
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Dancing the Night Away with Dua Lipa
For 425: What I saw at last night’s Dua Lipa concert in Seattle.
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The Slippery, Enigmatic ‘Yella’
Nina Hoss is entrancing in Christian Petzold’s ‘Carnival of Souls’-inspired movie.
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‘Night of the Demon’: Stylish Supernatural Horror Nearly Ruined by Its Producers
Jacques Tourneur’s tampered-with 1957 film proves that his good instincts are better off not being messed with.
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Jealousy is a Disease in ‘2LDK’
This Yukihiko Tsutsumi-directed face-off-style movie packs a punch.
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Daliah Lavi Carries ‘The Demon’
Her fantastic work is sometimes undercut by the movie’s rather clinical presentation, though.
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It’s a Good Thing ‘Opera’ Looks Amazing
Though a marked improvement on 1985’s ‘Phenemona,’ Dario Argento’s last movie of the ’80s is distractingly illogical.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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Jean Gillie is the Reason to See ‘Decoy’
Jack Bernhard’s 1946 noir never completely grabs you, but Gillie’s impressively vicious performance almost makes up for it.
March 27, 2026
February 4, 2026
November 6, 2025
Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
March 30, 2026
Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
March 11, 2026
Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
March 4, 2026
Peterson Reviews 